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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Behavioral Economics Working Group
Behavioral Finance Meeting

Nicholas C. Barberis and Kent D. Daniel, Organizers

November 15, 2014

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

PROGRAM

 

Friday, November 14, 2014

6:30 pm

Dinner
Dante Restaurant

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

Saturday, November 15, 2014

7:45 am    Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
8:00 am    Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Daniel Chen, ETH Zurich
Tobias J. Moskowitz, University of Chicago and NBER
Kelly Shue, University of Chicago and NBER
Decision-Making under the Gambler's Fallacy: Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires

Discussant: Daniel Benjamin, Cornell University and NBER

9:30 am

Tom Chang, University of Southern California
Samuel M. Hartzmark, University of Chicago
David H. Solomon, University of Southern California
Eugene F. Soltes, Harvard University
Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns

Discussant: Eric So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER
Chenhao Tan, Cornell University

Thomas Zimmermann, Harvard University
Inductive Testing: Theory and an Application to the Disposition Effect

Discussant: Matti Keloharju, Aalto University

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Francesco D’Acunto, University of California at Berkeley
Marcel Prokopczuk, Zeppelin University
Michael Weber, University of Chicago
Distrust in Finance Lingers: Jewish Persecution and Households' Investments

Discussant: Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER

2:00 pm

Yihui Pan, University of Utah
Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
Tracy Yue Wang, University of Minnesota
The Cultural Origin of Preferences: CEO Cultural Heritage and Corporate Investment

Discussant: Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Chunxin Jia, Peking University
Yaping Wang, Peking University
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER
Social Trust and Differential Reactions of Local and Foreign Investors to Public News

Discussant: Christopher Parsons, University of California at San Diego

4:30 pm

Adjourn

11/15/14